Looking back at the top enterprise news stories of the year, it's clear that generative AI dominated, but it wasn't the only news. ...
Sunday, December 31, 2023
Saturday, December 30, 2023
I’ve been one of the those “I don’t own a TV” people for a long time. Really my entire adult life, excepting those times when I shared my li...
Despite a rise in cyberattacks and breaches, the cybersecurity industry is by no means exempt from the uncertainty inspired by the current e...
Friday, December 29, 2023
Skincare girlies, fear not — your moisturizer probably does not attract spiders. Sol de Janeiro’s DelÃcia Drench Body Butter, which launched...
India, a major player in the global automotive industry, has started focusing on transitioning to alternative fuels to curb pollution after ...
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Defense tech startup Shield AI has expanded its latest funding round with another $300 million in equity and debt, bringing its total Series...
Last year, we compiled a list of 2022’s most poorly handled data breaches looking back at the bad behavior of corporate giants when faced wi...
Thursday, December 28, 2023
Silicon Valley can be a place of great power and riches, but the smallest thing can bring it crashing down. From deepfaked phone calls with ...
Wednesday, December 27, 2023
E-commerce startup FirstCry is seeking to raise $218 million through issue of fresh shares in its initial public offering, the 13-year-old s...
Apple’s warnings in late October that Indian journalists and opposition figures may have been targeted by state-sponsored attacks prompted a...
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GenAI is driving another layer of technical debt for many businesses. Under the pressures of constant innovation, we could see the AI cloud ...
Homes aren’t getting cheaper — or necessarily easier to secure. This year, the median household income for home buyers jumped to $107,000 fr...
This year, 2023, was a hell of a year for data breaches, much like the year before it (and the year before that, etc.). Over the past 12 mon...
Tuesday, December 26, 2023
The next wave of successful startups will help companies harness GenAI to improve organizational productivity while preventing attacks. © 2...
For yet another year, hackers stole billions of dollars in crypto. But for the first time since 2020, the trend is downwards, according to c...
Whenever chaos engulfs a proprietary technology relied on by millions, the default knee-jerk reaction from many seems to be: “Hey, let’s see...
Code.org, the US educational non-profit, has filed a lawsuit in a California district court alleging that Byju’s subsidiary WhiteHat Jr brea...
Monday, December 25, 2023
It was a slow year in enterprise technology M&A, and the total was the second lowest since we started compiling the data in 2018. © 202...
Sunday, December 24, 2023
Salesforce started the year with an unusual level of turbulence, but after escaping activist investors, it ended up having a good year. © 2...
Saturday, December 23, 2023
When faced with seemingly insurmountable odds or a potential windfall investment, what is most important is that you stay true to your compa...
General Motors has temporarily halted sales of the brand new Chevy Blazer EV after some of the first vehicles shipped have encountered a num...
Friday, December 22, 2023
Decentralized social network and Twitter rival Bluesky is finally letting users look at posts on its platform without logging in. People sti...
It was pure coincidence, but months before the pandemic took hold around the world, IndieBio — a startup accelerator devoted to startups usi...
Following competition objections raised on Google in Germany this summer over bundling of services including Google Maps via its Android-bas...
Back in 2018, my former colleague at VICE Motherboard Joseph Cox and I started publishing a list of the best cybersecurity stories that were...
Egyptian B2B e-commerce startup MaxAB and Wasoko, a Kenya-based e-commerce player with operations in Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia, ar...
The advent of the Internet combined with the ability to customise items such as clothing long ago created a revolution in marketing, especia...
Wednesday, December 20, 2023
Vestwell, which provides the infrastructure for employers to power workplace savings programs, has raised $125 million in what the company d...
Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, suffered an outage globally earlier Thursday that lasted for more than an ho...
On stream, Filian took the stage at the center of a colossal arena, lit with violet spotlights and surrounded by crowds of fans holding ligh...
Bird has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, capping off a turbulent year for the electric scooter company. In a press release today, Bird conf...
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
ShareChat is in final stages of deliberations to secure about $50 million in new funding that trims the startup’s valuation to below $1.5 bi...
Micromobility.com, formerly Helbiz, was delisted from the Nasdaq on Monday as a result of the company’s noncompliance with the stock exchang...
Tesla wants to pause a federal agency’s lawsuit against the automaker for racial bias against its Black workers at its Fremont assembly plan...
Monday, December 18, 2023
Google said today it will pay $700 million — $630 million to U.S. consumers and $70 to a fund used by U.S. states — in a settlement over Pla...
Gogoro co-founder and CEO Horace Luke wants to “go big” in India even as the Taiwanese company faces challenges in its home country. The pot...
Alteryx, an Irvine, California-based software company developing data science and analytics products, today announced that it’s agreed to be...
In this issue: AstroForge reviews setbacks (and successes) during first mission; Terran Orbital CEO says company is not looking for a buyer;...
Autonomous vehicle company May Mobility has launched its first driverless on-demand microtransit service on public roads in Sun City, Arizon...
Tamara, a buy now pay later platform for consumers in Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC region, has raised $340 million in a financing C round ...
Sunday, December 17, 2023
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What does it all mean for startups entering 2024? It means they have to prove their worth more than ever. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights res...
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Assigning equal weight to growth and profitability for late-stage businesses is flawed and has caused misguided business decisions. © 2023 ...
Saturday, December 16, 2023
Montamo hires and trains people to work in the clean energy transition with an emphasis on helping migrants build a new career. © 2023 Tech...
Women's health, as it has existed for the past 200 years, is dead. One hammer for all of our problems will no longer suffice. © 2023 Te...
A version of this q&a first appeared in TechCrunch’s free robotics newsletter, Actuator. Subscribe here. We’re wrapping up our end-of-y...
Friday, December 15, 2023
Grimes is stepping into the toy business with “Grok,” a character that she voiced for Curio’s new line of screen-free AI plushies. The toy i...
In the fight against Methane, a key GHG, Valley investors have hit upon an unusual target: Cow burps
What do iconic Valley investors Zachary Bogue and Chris Sacca have in common? They are both trying to stop cows from burping methane. No, re...
Thursday, December 14, 2023
Against a backdrop of layoffs and continuing economic uncertainty, the announcements — particularly in such quick succession — point to a fe...
Credit Karma co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer Nichole Mustard is leaving the company after 16-and-a-half years, TechCrunch has exclusive...
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Berlin-based climate startup ecoworks is using digital technologies, AI and industrial robots to tackle a huge and critical problem: Energy ...
Twitch announced sweeping updates to its sexual content policy and content classification system, which now allows previously prohibited con...
GM has introduced a smattering of EVs in the past two years: the GMC Hummer SUV and its companion pickup truck, the Cadillac Lyriq and the S...
Nine Cruise managers and executives who worked in commercial operations, legal and policy department have left GM’s self-driving vehicle sub...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Aye Finance, an Indian startup that offers its digital lending platform to small firms, has raised $37.18 million in a fresh funding round l...
Independent music distribution service DistroKid launched its Android app today months after the company launched the iOS app. The Android a...
The FCC has made a final denial of Starlink’s application for $885 million in public funds to expand its orbital communications infrastructu...
The in-car tech used by the likes of Ford and GM to make sure drivers pay attention to the road has come a long way. But it’s just not ready...
Monday, December 11, 2023
Last year’s techwide reckoning continues. The tech industry has seen more than 240,000 jobs lost in 2023, a total that’s already 50% higher ...
Sunday, December 10, 2023
Elon Musk has restored the X accounts of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his media site Infowars. The X accounts of Jones and Infowars we...
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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is throwing her weight behind Beeper, the app that allowed Android users to message iPhone users via...
While it's easy to get lost in the hype of generative AI, you have to remember there could be a big governance piece coming. © 2023 Tec...
Companies embracing the PaaS paradigm must recognize that there won't be a one-size-fits-all workload solution. © 2023 TechCrunch. All ...
Saturday, December 9, 2023
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories...
Friday, December 8, 2023
Welcome to Gag City, the pink metropolis inhabited by stans and brands alike. In the days leading up to the release of “Pink Friday 2,” Nick...
After marathon ‘final’ talks which stretched to almost three days European Union lawmakers have tonight clinched a political deal on a risk-...
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has let launch providers conduct their own investigations in nearly every instance that a launch mi...
Thursday, December 7, 2023
The problem of alignment is an important one when you’re setting AI models up to make decisions in matters of finance and health. But how ca...
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It appears that the allure of complex pricing models and business strategies often proves too tempting to resist. © 2023 TechCrunch. All ri...
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Sarvam AI has come out of stealth mode and announced it has raised $41 million as the five-month old Indian startup races to build a suite o...
After years of promises and limited tests, Meta has started rolling out default end-to-end encryption protection for Messenger. In an announ...
Indian financial services firm Paytm sent shockwaves through the industry on Wednesday after it disclosed that it plans to issue fewer perso...
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
Avenir Growth Partners is seeking to raise $800 million for its fifth fund, it disclosed in a securities filing, two years after it began th...
Discord launched a major refresh of its mobile app on Tuesday, putting messaging front-and-center while making a host of small improvements ...
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writ...
Monday, December 4, 2023
Cruise keeps getting kicked while it’s down. The General Motors-owned robotaxi company may face fines and sanctions after failing to disclos...
Kodiak Robotics has unveiled its first autonomous test vehicle for the U.S. Department of Defense, a Ford F-150 pickup truck that the startu...
The UK’s Internet regulator has set out draft guidance for how porn sites will need to meet a newly introduced hard legal requirement to pre...
Welcome back to Max Q! In this issue: Why space parachutes are so hard, a new lawsuit alleging safety issues at Blue Origin, news from Loft ...
Sunday, December 3, 2023
MoveinSync, an Indian startup offering mobility solutions to blue-chip companies for workplace commute, is engaging with investors to raise ...
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Indonesia’s construction industry is growing quickly, driven by residential and industrial building, alongside infrastructure development pl...
The fund is technically a nonprofit with a debt fund attached. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCru...
Legacy automakers have scaled back or set overly modest electric vehicle production targets. They may come to regret that. © 2023 TechCrunc...
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Today we're focusing on metrics and business environments that apply to most SaaS companies — not the unicorn outliers. © 2023 TechCrun...
Saturday, December 2, 2023
For the next few weeks, TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter Actuator will be running Q&As with some of the top minds in robotics. Subscribe...
Companies employing subscription licensing have grown between three and four times faster than the S&P 500 over the past 12 years. © 20...
Friday, December 1, 2023
Genetic testing company 23andMe announced on Friday that hackers accessed around 14,000 customer accounts in the company’s recent data breac...
Fisker, the California-based EV startup, cut its annual production guidance in an effort to free up $300 million in working capital, the com...
